My friend's cat knocked her new Latitude D520 off a table onto the
floor, and it landed on the AC connector which broke the AC connector
on the inside of the laptop.
This is something that would not be covered under the normal

Can I remove the Core 2 Duo (E6600) processor from my Dell Dimension 9200
and simply replace it with a Quad Core processor, or is it not as straight
forward as that?
Joe.

I have a Dell Latitude D620 notebook that I suspect is overheating.  I
was wondering if there is a utility that I can use to monitor the
temperature.
Any help is appreciated.

At $209.99, the cheapest price I've ever seen for them:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101921-RFB
Both offer free shipping.

I bought a 9200 (2 days after I ordered it), but I have a couple of
problems.
#1 - Is it better to just remove the junk programs (AOL, Earthlink,
etc) through the control center, or is it better to a clean install?

Out of the blue I started booting up to "My Documents". I believe the
problem is in the userinit.exe file but I don't know how to fix it. Running
WinXP. SP2. Any suggestions? Thanks

Tried to boot PC into safe mode would not boot, changed the boot.ini to safe
mode, would not boot(I really stupid on my part),
Have the restore cd, but will not boot from that either, changed boot
sequence to boot from cdrom first device, but no help,

The subject pretty much says it all. I can take 2 hits in a day or go
weeks without one. I ran memtest for hours (plus PC memory isn't parity
checked anyway) without a pee, as well as Dell's diagnostics. I
suspected my video card based on some posts I Googled on the 'Net, but I

I had been looking to replace my 4+ year old Inspiron 1100 with Celeron and
20 GB HD, mostly Dells and HP. I saw Journey's post about helping someone
buy a Latitude D520 and looked at it. Subsequently got an email from Dell
advertising it at $640. There were slight differences in ...

I own a 9100 Laptop since app. 2 years and was quite happy with it.
Since some month now the system is no more possible to show dvd`s or
too burn them aso.
The system slows down to 486 speed after some minutes so that dvd

What's the fastest processor I can put in an Inspiron 8200?
The fastest I've seen them with is 2.4Ghz, but Intel seems to have
made the same processor up to 2.6Ghz. See:
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/25072137.pdf

A friend has a 9200 and he tells me that a Partition Magic CD and a BartPE
CD won't boot. I determined they do actually boot but soon end in a BSOD.
These same CDs boot properly in other computers. WinXP CD does boot normally
in his 9200.

My Dell computer running XP quit working. My hard drive appears to be
working and my Files are intact.
A friend of mine took my hard drive (which used to be the C drive running XP
home on my old Dell computer), and put it in an external hard drive

I have a Dimension 4300.  My power supply is 250 W.  Can I upgrade to 300 or
350 W.  What power supply would be compatible w/my unit. I just purchased a
flat panel monitor, now I want to upgrade my graphic board.Well ,since I'm
at it, can you recommend a graphics board.  I am ...

I just got a new Dell desktop computer and I have been busy burning all of
my CD collection to my hard drive...got about 250 CDs burned so far to go
along with my collection of MP3s.
The computer has Vista on it and it is burning the CDs with Windows Media in